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Here's a picture from an inspection the other day. This is the hive I've just started watching for a nearby Nature Center. The bees are generally looking pretty good. I was wondering about this brood laying pattern. Looks like a spiral. Tighter in the center but it looks like she spun wide on the pattern. Opinions?

.Spiral have come so that the queen has started to lay from center. Then the cluster grows and it is possible to lay wider area. Then they are situation that center has capped brood and periphery has you larvae and eggs.

3 weeks later first capped brood has emerged and they are laid and reared to capped brood.Emerging has moved towards periphery and you see only narrow zone of emerging brood. Next to it you seeeggs and larvae (open cells)

Finksi: we are on the waining of winter. Mix bag Of warm periods then freeze periods. some warm days last up to a week then cold snap can last 2-4 days then warming again.

we are on the edge of the line between light tropic and the median line. plus closer to eastern mountain range there in the northwestern part of the state. sort of like the southern part of Europe between Spain and southern France. somewhat like that climate.